Good point Holger- I don't have hardlink counts or stats, but it
should only take about 10mns of work to download/compile rsync3, and
run a benchmark on your pool ;)

On 5/21/09, Holger Parplies <wbppc AT parplies DOT de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Rob Terhaar wrote on 2009-05-21 13:01:58 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] backup
> the backuppc pool with bacula]:
>> [...]
>> Try Rsync v3, it has much lower memory requirements since it builds
>> the file list incrementally.
>
> by all means, try it. But it's not the file list that is the specific
> problem
> of BackupPC.
>
>> I used it at one company to do nightly
>> syncs of their ~4TB backuppc pool offsite.
>
> It's still a matter of file count (used inodes, to be exact), not pool
> storage
> size. rsync V3 may perform significantly better if you have many links to
> comparatively few inodes, but if you have many inodes (for some unknown
> value
> of "many"), I am still convinced that you will hit a problem. Feel free to
> convince me otherwise, but "works for me" is unlikely to succeed ;-).
>
> Regards,
> Holger
>

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